Managing director Dawn Helsing Wolters will leave the Milwaukee Repertory Theater at the end of its present season to pursue other opportunities, the Rep announced in a statement released Tuesday afternoon. The Rep's Board of Trustees is beginning a national search for her replacement, according to the statement. | Nov. 13, 2012»Read Full Article

Rob Thomas made a promise early in Matchbox Twenty's Milwaukee set Saturday, to give the audience "the best tonight you could possibly have."

But for a significant portion of the two-hour set at the Riverside Theater, Thomas, his three Matchbox bandmates and two touring musicians didn't appear to live in the moment as much as in the past, specifically back in the late '90s and early aughts when the band's barely impactful but catchy pop rock were a resounding soundtrack of the era. | Feb. 10, 2013»Read Full Article(6)

For all its obvious faults, goulash communism - featuring modest economic reforms and more liberal social policies - seemingly positioned Hungary for a more successful and humane transition from Stalinism.

Writers write about it, scholars think about it, but no one has really managed to explain why the music written over the 200-or-so year history of Russian classical music sounds so absolutely Russian. | Feb. 9, 2013»Read Full Article